I love small squares, it brings back great memories! Thank you Jan for sharing your great farm life!!! stay safe my friend and God bless you and everyone on your farm!!!!!!!
Square bailers have always been something that amaze me. How they cut, aline, compress and tie that random swath into a perfect square. Nothing beats the smell of fresh hay. Great video once again. As always in Saskatchewan if you don’t like the weather wait five minutes.
winnileesboy My cousin used to work at feed lot at Strathmore Ab. We would feed a conveyor with squares in 8 hour shifts. The hay shed had 1000’s of bales stacked 50 feet high.
Thanks Jan. I always wondered how those square bales were made. I understand and appreciate much better after your fine demonstration. Blessings to you and the family!
Thanks for sharing a little bit of your day with us. You are not kidding about not kicking the wind rows together for small squares. We raked a field for big round bales and then decided to small bale it, had to run the tractor in 1st low, riding the clutch. The upside, the bales were almost end to end, so not as much walking to pick them up.
Gosh, there’s a machine for everything! The hay bales remind me of mini wheats cereal. I’m a Canadian too (ON) and I can really hear the accent when you say “out here” etc. lol. :)
There's no mistaking where this kid grew up! That's part of what I love about this channel, 10th Generation Dairyman, and Tom Pemberton Farm life. They each have a distinct and unmistakable sense of place.
Brings back memories. Pressed many a straw balles back in the day. Though we used a system that would fill wagons automatically. Though this meant extra work unloading them. But it was convenient for us as we often get the straw from other farmers who due not need it, and thus had a bit of travel time on the road.
Many a fond memories of bailing hay and straw with my uncle. We did it ole school stacking by hand. Yes the bale wagon is a time saver but I never tipped a load with stacking by hand. Thank you for sharing.
If you have a decent size stone close throw it ahead of tire when putting baler in and out of transport saves alot of jerking. Great video thanks for taking the time
Small bales reminds me of my teens. The local farmers would hire us during hay making to hand stack the wagons, unload at the barn and hand stack in the loft. We turned everything into a competition. Hard work but great fun and an appreciation for what it takes to feed the world!:)
Absolutely love the haying equipment in the video. Drone footage was spot on. Even tho you got rain the sky was beautiful. Thanks for taking us along with you.
Very cool kid! I learn something new with each video! When I was twenty (I turn sixty next week😲) I spent some time with my uncle Ralph who raised pigs, 600, kept beef as a "hobby" 200, had sheep, chickens, rabbits, ducks, and I'm probably forgetting something! Huge veggie garden that was all my Aunt's baby. I've never seen any person in my life work as hard as that woman!!! Anyway, I showed up during hay harvest so your video sparked a few good memories for me! This was in central Minnesota, which is more or less Canada, right? My Uncle owned 200 acres but farmed 900 all with the help of two nephews during the summer. Your dad must be very proud of you!
That bale picker is wonderful.... we always walk beside the pick up truck and tossed the bales up to the person riding in the back of the pick up.... we all fought to be the person in the back of the pick up cause tossing those bales up to the truck was hard.
I remember growing up on farm with square bales I come from large family so we had a couple of wagons Dad built homemade from old combine axles & steering axle from 52 IH grain truck Those were the days my friend great videos keep them coming Go Riders Go
Jan you are such a thoughtful person. Now with those square bales when you have a steak Bar B Q you can invite your Vegan friend's and they can have some hay steak.
Dam 2 days for it to dry. (Around me) Ottawa, Ontario) I cut the hay in the morning, take it in the afternoon around 4 pm and start balling it around 11 am the following day (less then 36h) I even have to bale the small square bales with some dew on it cause it’s at 6-7%
When I baled 35 yrs ago we had a hay wagon hooked to a conveyor hooked to the baler hooked to the tractor.. as the bales fell onto the wagon you grabbed them and stacked them and when full we went to the barn and unloaded onto a conveyor into the hay mow and again waited for the bale to drop but this time you grabbed it and moved fast just in case the person loading decided to load them close together and tried to drop it on you as you grabbed a bale!!
